Public companies no longer have to fear the threat of securities class actions in 50 different states under potentially 50 different sets of laws.

Companies that wish to access the capital markets in the United States will no longer have the threat of facing securities class actions in 50 different states, with potentially 50 different laws.

I suspect this rush to settle the civil antitrust actions and the securities class action are the product of both an approaching deal with the government involving a plea of guilty to criminal price fixing, and also the approaching shareholders meeting.

The appropriate actions were taken. Some allegations are still under investigation,

This is a memento of my brother's heroic actions of that day.

Class action reform has a tendency to make class actions less desirable, and the class action device is not what's being used in these cases - these are multiple individual cases.